top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-29

India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/29/india-bans-tiktok-dozens-of-other-chinese-apps/

5 years ago

1483 upvotes – 795 comments

Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly

https://medium.com/@CM30/the-unknown-duopoly-that-needs-breaking-up-more-than-google-f7b2c8876ea7

5 years ago

1100 upvotes – 523 comments

Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple

https://blog.anylist.com/2020/06/sign-in-with-apple/

5 years ago

1069 upvotes – 469 comments

Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/29/reddit-closes-long-running-forum-supporting-president-trump-after-years-policy-violations/

5 years ago

795 upvotes – 851 comments

Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-declined-to-implement-16-web-apis-in-safari-due-to-privacy-concerns/

5 years ago

428 upvotes – 442 comments

The KDE community is moving to GitLab

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/06/29/welcome-kde/

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 159 comments

Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news_but_tbh_if_you_have_tiktiok_just_get/

5 years ago

367 upvotes – 128 comments

YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/29/21307303/youtube-bans-molyneux-duke-richard-spencer-conduct-hate-speech

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 887 comments

Klutz Press: books built for learning stuff

https://www.charlieharrington.com/create-wonderful-things-be-good-have-fun

5 years ago

358 upvotes – 101 comments

Keep Your Stuff, for Life

https://perkeep.org/

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 109 comments

Apple and Facebook

https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-and-facebook/

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 148 comments

Megadesk

https://www.tindie.com/products/gcormier/megadesk/

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 137 comments

Ask HN: How to improve my abstract thinking?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23675370

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 104 comments

There’s no replacement for the thrill of browsing in a bookstore

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/theres-no-replacement-for-the-thrill-of-browsing-in-a-bookstore/2020/06/25/20855c1a-abf1-11ea-a9d9-a81c1a491c52_story.html

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 149 comments

Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?

https://nimbleindustries.io/2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-more-since-its-acquisition-by-microsoft/

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 141 comments

Running Postgres in Kubernetes [pdf]

https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/ossna2020/fc/Running%20Postgres-as-a-Service%20in%20Kubernetes.pdf

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 100 comments

The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix rival crash so fast?

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jun/28/quibi-netflix-jeffrey-katzenberg-crash

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 262 comments

'We've bought the wrong satellites': UK tech gamble baffles experts

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/26/satellite-experts-oneweb-investment-uk-galileo-brexit

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 280 comments

Things to know before starting a Patreon page

http://pencerw.com/feed/2020/6/24/three-things-all-creators-should-know-about-patreon?mc_cid=cb178f4bd4&mc_eid=5ac3a20371

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 65 comments

Greatest Java apps

https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/the-top-25-greatest-java-apps-ever-written

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 188 comments

Shoes

http://shoesrb.com

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 34 comments

GitHub was down

https://www.githubstatus.com?

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 107 comments

A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly

https://pingcap.com/blog/reasons-rust-compiles-slowly

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 125 comments

Break Up Google

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/25/Break-Up-Google

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 189 comments

Arduino FIDO2 Authenticator

https://en.ovcharov.me/2020/06/29/uru-card-arduino-fido2-authenticator/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 88 comments

Worrying about the NPM Ecosystem

https://sambleckley.com/writing/npm.html

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 86 comments

Weighing a Car with Tire Pressures

https://surjan.substack.com/p/16-weighing-a-car-with-tire-pressures

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 116 comments

Circle of Competence: Avoid Ambiguity Traps

https://models.substack.com/p/circle-of-competence-avoid-ambiguity

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 81 comments

Scandinavian Monitoring Stations Detect Unexplained Radiation Spike over Europe

https://www.iflscience.com/physics/unexplained-radiation-spike-over-europe-detected-by-scandinavian-monitoring-stations/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 103 comments

How remdesivir works, and why it's not the ultimate coronavirus killer

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2020/06/29/how-remdesivir-works-and-why-its-not-the-ultimate-coronavirus-killer/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 100 comments

Putin's People – a groundbreaking study that follows the money

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/06/putins-people-by-catherine-belton-review-a-groundbreaking-study-that-follows-the-money

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 140 comments

Ask HN: Have any of you moved back home to save money?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23679154

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 220 comments

Deep Chernoff Faces

https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2020/06/deep-chernoff-faces.html

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 33 comments

Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2013)

http://yosefk.com/blog/do-call-yourself-a-programmer-and-other-career-advice.html

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 74 comments

A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018)

https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/a-guide-to-hacker-news-for-people-who-arent-men-5737bc3e68a

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 161 comments

Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)

https://danwang.co/why-so-few-computer-science-majors/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 423 comments

Neurons that fire together, wire together, but how?

http://dissociativediaries.com/neurons-that-fire-together-wire-together-ok-but-how/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 45 comments

Why I left Substack and the Email Renaissance

https://www.kevin-indig.com/why-i-left-substack-and-the-email-renaissance/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 82 comments

Returning from a Year of Isolation in Antarctica

https://www.rd.com/article/isolated-for-a-year-in-antarctica/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 96 comments

The History of Usenet and FidoNet

https://technicshistory.com/2020/06/25/the-era-of-fragmentation-part-4-the-anarchists/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 32 comments

A new theory about political polarization

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-theory-political-polarization.html

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 160 comments

What Is the Morning Writing Effect? (2011)

https://www.gwern.net/Morning-writing

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: Best Bank for Startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23682511

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 53 comments

Facebook Boycott Grows: Ford Joins Coca-Cola, Starbucks and Other Brands

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/29/884881853/facebook-boycott-grows-ford-joins-coca-cola-starbucks-and-other-brands

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 69 comments

What every scientific programmer should know about compiler optimizations?

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3392717.3392754

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

Equations system with a black rectangle in LaTeX

https://gus-massa.blogspot.com/2020/06/equations-system-with-black-rectangle.html

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 44 comments

A decidedly non-Linux distro walkthrough: Haiku R1/beta2

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/a-decidedly-non-linux-distro-walkthrough-haiku-r1-beta2/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 46 comments

ReDoS: Regular Expression Denial of Service

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/the-regular-expression-denial-of-service-redos-cheat-sheet-a78d0ed7d865

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments

Mapping Anything with BSicons

https://chriszetter.com/blog/2020/06/25/mapping-anything-with-bsicons/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 3 comments

eBay’s Critics Faced an Extreme Case of an Old Silicon Valley Habit

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/technology/ebay-silicon-valley-security-reputation.html

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments
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